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Please join us as we celebrate International Women’s Day with Navid Madani, PhD, Founding Director of The Science Health Education (SHE) Center at DFCI; Senior Scientist, Department of Cancer Immunology and Virology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
Time and place: Thursday, March 14 | Gordon Hall Waterhouse Room
4 pm to 5:00 pm
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Dr. Madani is a Senior Scientist in the Department of Cancer Immunology and Virology at Dana-Farber (DFCI), with appointments at Harvard Medical School in the Departments of Microbiology and Global Health and Social Medicine. She is also the Founding Director of The Science Health Education (SHE) Center at DFCI.
Dr. Madani uses a multidisciplinary approach to find preventive measures to inhibit HIV-1 transmission. . Her research emphasizes the need for HIV/AIDS drug discovery to work toward development of a microbicide to halt HIV transmission that is suitable for use in women—a population that is underserved and disenfranchised in many countries globally. |